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Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Highlander Blacksmith Smoked Porter

November 30, 2013

This week, Chris and Fred drink Blacksmith Smoked Porter, from Highlander Brewing. Now available at the LCBO (#362772)

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Bellwoods Farmageddon

November 22, 2013

Today Chris and Fred drink the ohmazing Farmageddon from Bellwoods, a Saison aged in barrels infected with brettanomyces, making it funky and dry. Also, the usual hipster-jokes ensue.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — King Dark and Stockyards BBQ

November 1, 2013 · 1 comments

Today, Fred and Chris drink a world-class schwartzbeir, King Dark Lager, and eat some of the best BBQ in Toronto, from The Stockyards Smokehouse and Larder.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Northwinds Corduroy Rye Pale Ale

October 25, 2013

On today's break, Chris and Fred have a conflict of interest, drink a great Rye Pale Ale, and discuss..... beer.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Muskoka Harvest Ale

October 21, 2013

This week, Chris and Fred drink Muskoka's excellent Harvest Ale, and talk about other styles of fall seasonal beers.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Kensington Tilt

October 12, 2013

Today, Fred and Chris talk about Tilt from Kensington Brewing Co, as well as fall/winter seasonal beers, and the new beers at the LCBO this season. Also, ignore the reference to Beau's Oktoberfest. We got delayed a week …

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Cask Days/The Granite

October 9, 2013

Sorry for the long lay-off on posting these. Firstly, one of our key producers in the beer breaks left Corus, and it took a bit of time to get realigned and back on track, then this video came out on Friday, and I was …

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Amsterdam BrewHouse Food Pairing

August 31, 2013

Today, we hooked up with Iain McOustra again, and ate a bunch of awesome food paired with stellar beers. Hard living, I know....

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Amsterdam BrewHouse Tasting Flight

August 22, 2013

Today, Fred and Chris got to hang out with Iain McOustra, Head Brewer at the Amsterdam BrewHouse. They got to enjoy the patio, as well as a flight of the excellent beers available.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Amsterdam De Wallen

August 8, 2013

So we're totally stoked to have Amsterdam join us in partnership for the beer break for the next few weeks! And of course, a big thanks to our friends at Toronto's Festival of Beer for all the fun these past few months. …

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — And Les Murray!

July 22, 2013

Today, Fred and Chris are joined by Les Murray, president of the Toronto Festival of Beer! They chat beer fest, and drink Creemore Mad and Noisy Sunny and Share Saison, and Anchor Brewing Liberty Ale.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Beau's Opa's Gose

July 15, 2013

Just in to the LCBO, today Fred and Chris drink Opa's Gose from Beau's All-Natural Brewing. It's salty. Especially when you dump salt into it.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Black Oak Ten Bitter Years

July 5, 2013

Today, Fred and Chris get into some of Black Oak's anniversary beer, Ten Bitter Years Double IPA. They also show off their new custom-made bbBarFly bottle openers.

Friday Beer Break With Fearless Fred — Steam Whistle Pilsner

June 28, 2013

Today, Fred and Chris were joined by Marina from Steam Whistle, and a $3.2k solid gold bottle opener (seriously). Talking Toronto Festival of Beer, box hats, beer delivery and Willy Wonka.

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Spearhead Brewing

June 21, 2013

This week, Fred and Chris are joined by Dimitri van Kampen, of Spearhead Brewing, and he's brought some cool beers: Hawaiian-style Pale Ale, Morrocan Brown Ale and Big Kahuna Double IPA. Check it out below.

Friday Beer Break With Fearless Fed — Sawdust City Barrel-aged Ol' Woody

June 17, 2013

This week on the old beer break, Fred and I got into FOUR different bottles from Sawdust City. They are presenting their Ol' Woody Alt at Toronto Festival of Beer in a barrel-aged demo. So they've aged their excellent …

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Alexander Keith's Hop Series

June 9, 2013 · 1 comments

In today's episode, Fred and his faithful sidekick venture into bigger waters, and sample the Alexander Keith's Hop Series Ales; both the Cascade and Hallertau varieties. Listen live every Friday between 4:30-5pm and …

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Left Field Brewery

May 31, 2013

Chilling with Fred, and drinking both Eephus and 6-4-3 IIPA from our friends at Left Field Brewery. About The Brewery Know that feeling you get on opening day, after a walk-off home run or a suspenseful no-hitter? That’s …

Friday Beer Break with Fearless Fred — Beer Academy Maibock

May 30, 2013

Very happy to be back doing a weekly beer break with my friend "Fearless" Fred at 102.1 The Edge. For our first week back, we drank some excellent Maibock from the crew at The Beer Academy.

Podcast Thursday — December 20th 2012 — Making Butter Beer

December 21, 2012

Because I had such a big response to the butter beer recipe in The Beer Lover's Christmas, I decided for Podcast Thursday, I would make a video of me making it, because it so darn easy (it's magic)! Then I had to wait …